Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-05
HOMES FOR VISITORS.
Public Meeting Held TO Devise
NYeaus of Ruilding.


A large and enthusiastic meeting
of citizens was held in the Real Es-
tate Exchange Hall at 151a South
Spring street last evening, for the
purpose of discussing and taking STEPS
for the establishment OF a Tourists
Park. Promptly at s O'Clock, Pro-
lessor T. Wiesendanger, called the
meeting to order and upon motion,
the Professor was elected permanent
chairman and Robert Evan McGregor,
secretary. The Professors then stated
the objects of the meeting in a clear
and concise manner and in the
course of his remarks said Early
in the season the streets are already
crowded. Go to the hotels and board
ing houses and you can not get reason
able accommodation. Every incom-
ing train is loaded with people, and
we have not places to keep them. A
large number of visitors are already
here and thousands more are ex-
pected. Most all Of the numerous
buildings now in the course OF erection
are rented and in many cases leases
have been sold at a profit of as much
as $4,000 before the buildings were
erected. This shows how the boom
is going. Tickets to Los Angeles in
the East, on Pullman and on excur-
sion trains, are being sold at a prem
ium. 1t is a patent fact that we have
not the accommodations for the COM
ing visitors. Suburban towns and
other counties have places to put the
visitors, and as the Fasteners are sure
to become infatuated with our climate
they are sure to buy in whatever To-
cality they settle. The Kay
mond hotel has helped Pasadena Won
derfully. San Diego will soon have
her Coronado Beach Hotel and accom-
modate vast crowds. Here we have
a great transcontinental railway CEN
ter and still we cannot accommodate
our visitors. Hotels are nice, but
they are expensive, owing to the vast
number Of people they are obliged to
take care Of. Therefore, we as citi-
zens OF Los Angeles, must do our best
to devise means to accommodate this
vast incoming immigration.
The Professor then described the
situation of the proposed park and
said that the project was to erect
number of boarding houses, none to
cost less than $1,000 and have the
grounds beautifully laid out.
Colonel Violet next addressed the
meeting and said he hoped to see the
scheme as proposed carried out. Peo-
pie had made mistake in laying out
so many lots for speculation, without
building. for if they had they would
have doubled their money. IL
Judge Hamilton, OF New York, said
he appreciated the object OF the
meeting. He had searched for rooms
and dwelling for some time and
could not find proper accommoda-
tions. 1t was a shame and about
time that the people OF
Los Angeles were waking up to their
interests. w. r. Burke, Arthur n.
Sones, Robert Turner and Frank Nc
Coye ADDRESSED the meeting in the
same strain, the last gentleman con-
Guiding his remarks by subscribing
$25OO worth of stock. After some ex-
PLANTATION by Prof. Weisendanger the
stock list was opened and the follow
ing gentlemen subscribed:
T. Weisendanger .,............. xl0.0V0
Frank McCoye. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S,2UUUO
Arthur W. Jones s......-.....t....--.. !,oOo
James P. Mccarthy y................., Ivy
H. H. Wilcox .......... .....-....... I,OOV
Vignes & McGregOr r.........-....,... z,ooo
More stock was pledged and the